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For Immediate Release

NEW YORK-BASED ABSTRACT PAINTER MARK WILLIAMS TO BE FEATURED AT WADE WILSON ART

First Houston solo exhibition of two-time NEA grant recipient on view Sept. 7 thru Oct. 6

HOUSTON (Aug. 23, 2007) - Wade Wilson ART is pleased to announce its newest art exhibition featuring the New York abstract painter Mark Williams. The exhibit including large and medium scale paintings and works on paper will open with a reception for the artist on Friday, Sept. 7 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and will remain on view through Oct. 6.

Williams emphasizes the intellectual subtleties of line, form and its edges as they meet the surface of a canvas. At first glance, intersecting lines and rectilinear forms seem to display a faultless and perfect image. However, upon closer examination, viewers discover an imperfect composition - one that propagates the illusion of the precise.

“The tension that exists between the idealized vision of the precise and the actual portrayal of what is imprecise in Williams’ paintings serves as the vehicle for discovery in his work,” states Wade Wilson, director of Wade Wilson ART. “Herein lies the power of Williams’ abstract works,” he continued.

Robert Storr, dean of the Yale School of Art and former curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, has said Williams builds on the forms and formats of early abstractionists such as Mondrian and Malevich without taking any of their subtleties for granted. “Williams’ muted colors and tones are exquisitely calibrated in ways that a fundamentalist first generation abstract artist would have found difficult to achieve and might event have thought suspect had it been possible to do so.”

Williams’ abstract paintings have been the subject of a one-artist show in Switzerland earlier in the summer, as well as in Berlin in 2006. The artist is a two-time National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient and has received a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Recently, Williams’ received a Joseph Albers fellowship, which recognizes visual artist of established ability and provides financial assistance to the art world. Williams’ work is included in numerous public and private collections, most notably Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.), Staatliche Museum (Berlin) and Wilhelm-Hack Museum (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany).

About Wade Wilson Art
Founded in March 2005, Wade Wilson ART brings a fresh voice to the Houston visual arts community by presenting artists who primarily have not been seen in Houston, but whose work reflects current movements in international art circles. The Gallery, owned by Gregg Tyson and siblings Wade Wilson and Caroline Wilson Tyson, showcases painters and sculptors whose work explores use of light and color including Joseph Marioni, Jill Moser, Alan Ebnother, Mark Williams, John Zurier and Shawn Wallis.

Wade Wilson ART is located at 4411 Montrose Blvd, Ste. # 200, Houston, TX 77006. Wade Wilson ART is open Tuesday through Friday from 11:00 am-6:00 pm and on Saturday from 11:00 am-5:30 pm. For more information about the gallery or the Mark Williams exhibit, please visit www.wadewilsonart.com

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